B.C. teachers repeat call for binding arbitration

VANCOUVER – The head of British Columbia’s teachers’ union has turned the screws on the provincial government to agree to binding arbitration and settle a teachers strike that has kept half-a-million students out of class.

Jim Iker addressed masses of teachers, their supporting unions and members of the opposition New Democrats at a rally in downtown Vancouver Friday evening.

He repeated his call for binding arbitration after getting a negative response by Education Minister Peter Fassbender to the union’s proposal.

Friday was the first time the teachers’ union has proposed such a settlement method in its decades of combative history with B.C. governments of all political stripes.

If the government agrees, both sides would mutually agree on a person who would hammer out contract details that everyone would be compelled to accept.

1 comment on “B.C. teachers repeat call for binding arbitration”

The only problem is the B.C. government does not want a settlement or negotiation they only want things their way. The courts have told them twice they were wrong and to fix things and twice they have not and are not waiting another appeal. The problem isn’t wages and massages as the simplistic, silly, tweeting leader says, it is her bungling of the education file in the past and she and her CEO so called Minister of Education do not want to pay the piper. It is their fault and they want to rewrite the laws and not obey the rule of law. So why have courts when you have people like this in leadership roles? Pity the people of B.C. and their poor children. Imagine your own government is preventing your child from his/her education because they do not want to admit fault and move on. They fund ‘private’ schools for the well to do but neglect the public schools. Why pay the education tax is this is how they treat you? Demand a refund of the education tax all the way back from when the woman who never had a post secondary education (in fact somewhere it is written she was caught cheating) was Minister of Education …. demand a refund!